Nerdicus Genesis Review #8 : Adventures of Mighty Max

Title : Adventures of Mighty Max Publisher : Ocean Genre : Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1994 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $5-$7 I eat video games like this for breakfast. HA! Get it? Norman.....no? Come on, you know you watched this show when you were a kid. It was one of the classic Saturday morning cartoons that you plopped yourself down on the couch with a pop tart and a glass of milk and...

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Nerdicus SNES Review #11 : Adventures of Kid Kleets (Soccer Kid)

Title : Adventures of Kid Kleets Publisher : Ocean Genre : Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $15-$20 You know, I just recently got over playing Dr. Franken, so I really wasn't in the mood to play another experimental platformer. But, hell, it's my job. At least this one doesn't involving dismembering my girlfriend. This game was released in Japan as SOCCER...

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Nerdicus NES Review #83 : Big Foot

Title : Big Foot Publisher : Acclaim Genre : Racing Players : 1 / 2 Player Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $5-$10 Monster Trucks always confused me. Was it racing? Was it demolition derby? Was it just riders with male insecurities they needed to drive around in massive trucks to compensate for something else? I really think the only thing I owned that was monster truck related when I...

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Nerdicus NES Review #82 : Best of the Best: Karate Championship

Title : Best of the Best: Karate Championship Publisher : Electro Brain / Loriciel Genre : Karate Players : 1 / 2 Player Release Date : 1992 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $15-$20 There's one thing I think of when I see this game. Ahem.... "You're the best, around! Nothings ever gonna keep you down!!!!!" I could only wish I was Ralph Macchio rocking out to this song while doing some swing kicks in peoples...

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Nerdicus NES Review #81 : Beetlejuice

Title : Beetlejuice Publisher : LJN Genre : Action Adventure Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1991 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $10-$15 "Beetlejuice.....Beetlejuice.....BEETLEJUICE!" "It's SHOWTIME!"  Beetlejuice was easily one of my favorite movies growing up when I was a kid, and it was just further proof that Michael Keaton was one of the primary stars of the 80's-90's. I mean seriously, anyone...

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Nerdicus Genesis Review #6 & #7 : Aerobiz & Aerobiz : SUPERSONIC

Title : Aerobiz Publisher : Sega Genre : Airline Simulator Players : 1 - 4 Players Release Date : 1992 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $20-$25 Title : Aerobiz : SUPERSONIC Publisher : Sega Genre : Airline Simulator Players : 1 - 4 Players Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $25-$30 When I was a kid, I would always look at most simulator games and say to...

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Nerdicus SNES Review #10 : Adventures of Dr. Franken

Title : Adventures of Dr. Franken Publisher : DTMC Genre : Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $4-$7 Every now and then, a game comes out where you just have to ask yourself, "What the hell were they thinking?" As the 16-bit era grew, one of the most common games to come out were platformers, and publishers were desperate to make a dent in the industry and come...

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Nerdicus NES Review #80 : Battletoads & Double Dragon

Title : Battletoads & Double Dragon Publisher : Tradewest Genre : Beat Em Up Players : 1 / 2 Player Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $60-$70 You may be asking yourself, what can make one of the best NES games even better? How about adding another one of the most difficult Beat 'Em up's into the mix? That's right. You've got Battletoads, probably the hardest Beat Em Up on the NES, mixed...

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Nerdicus SNES Review #9 : Aero the Acro-Bat 2

Title : Aero the Acro-Bat 2 Publisher : Sunsoft Genre : Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1994 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $6-$7 Yesterday we took a look at Sunsoft's newest mascot of the 1990's, Aero the Acro-bat. While the mascot was a little bit tiresome, the game itself was actually pretty enjoyable. Let me make this point known. I found the Iguana in the Iguana entertainment logo more...

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Nerdicus Genesis Review #5 : Aero the Acro-Bat

Title : Aero the Acro-Bat Publisher : Sunsoft Genre : Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $6-$7 Ah, the 90's. The generation in which gaming different publishers tried to push a whole symphony of new and potential mascots for their brand. Some worked, most didn't. We all remember what happened to Bubsy. But here's another victim of the ill-fated "mascot-wars" (oooh,...

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Nerdicus NES Review #79 : Battletoads

Title : Battletoads Publisher : Rare Genre : Beat Em Up Players : 1 / 2 Player Release Date : 1991 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $15-$17 Retro games were known for being difficult. So difficult in fact that I guarantee you that you didn't beat half the games you had in your retro game library. I'm looking at my stack of Nintendo games right now and I'm not ashamed to say that at least 75% of these games...

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Nerdicus SNES Review #7 + #8 : Addams Family Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt & Addams Family Values

Title : Addams Family : Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt Publisher : Ocean Genre : Action Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $10-$12 ...

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Nerdicus NES Review #78 : Battleship

Title : Battleship Publisher : Mindscape Genre : Turn Based Strategy Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $5-$7 You already know how I feel about board games being turned into video games. But when you take a bonafide classic board game and add a few little quirks to make it that much more enjoyable, well then you have my attention. And that's what Mindscape did here with BATTLESHIP....

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Nerdicus SNES Review #6 : Adventures of Batman & Robin

Title : The Adventures of Batman & Robin Publisher : Konami Genre : Action Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1994 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $50-$65 Yesterday we played a little bit of the Genesis version of The Adventures of Batman & Robin, and here we have the SNES version. Now these two were very different from each other, with the Genesis version being a more of a run 'n'...

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Nerdicus Genesis Review #4 : The Adventures of Batman & Robin

Title : The Adventures of Batman & Robin Publisher : Sega Genre : Action / Run N Gun Players : 1 / 2 Player Release Date : 1994 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $12-$15 Here we have one of those cases where a game was released on a bunch of systems, but was somewhat different on each one. I'll go and review the SNES version tomorrow, but I figured I'd review the Genesis one first. Not to mention, this is...

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Nerdicus NES Review #77 : Battle Tank

Title : Battle Tank Publisher : Absolute Entertainment Genre : Tank Simulator Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $6-$8 Decent simulator games were rare back in the late 80's and early 90's. The problem was, video game technology just wasn't at the point where developers were able to make realistic and entertaining simulator games. If you look at games like FLIGHT SIMULATOR,...

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Nerdicus NES Review #76 : Battle of Olympus

Title : Battle of Olympus Publisher : Broderbund Genre : Action Platformer / RPG Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1989 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $3-$5 For me, there are a few games in the NES library that some people may disagree with how I feel about them. One of them was ZELDA II : The Adventure of Link, and one of the others was a game that was very similar to that. So similar that people thought it...

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Nerdicus Genesis Review #3 : The Addams Family

Title :  The Addams Family Publisher : Ocean Genre : Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1992 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $4-$5 Alright, this review is going to be quite the quicky. This is one of those instances where I've already played one of the ports on another system, and in this case it was the NES. This game was also released on a slew of other systems including the SNES, Game...

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Nerdicus NES #75 : Battle Chess

Title :  Battle Chess Publisher : Data East Genre : Chess Players : 1 / 2 Player Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $3-$5 If you read my last review about a battle-styled chess game, Archon, you would have remembered that I'm a huge fan of this game. After all, I was a proud member of the chess club in high school, and I am not ashamed to say it. The thing is, I also loved twists on...

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